Heidemarie Dreßel
Heidemarie Dreßel (born July 18, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German sculptor and installation artist.
Life
Dreßel studied at the Weimar School of Architecture in 1963 and architecture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1964 to 1969 . Selman Selmanagić was one of her teachers . After completing her studies, Dreßel worked in the Hellerau Furniture Combine in 1972 , worked as an architect from 1973 to 1980 and worked in the office for architecture-related art in Dresden from 1976 to 1980. Dreßel has been a freelance sculptor since 1980.
Act
Dreßel co-founded the Dresden Secession 89 Art Association in 1989 . She designed and organized the group’s temporary art campaigns Mnemosyne and the Mnemosyne-Water-Art-Path along the Kaitzbach and Prießnitz rivers . Dreßel works with ceramics, wood, metal and textiles, whereby the element water often plays a role. She created several works in public spaces, including mainly fountains and water features: The Nasses Haus fountain in Dresden-Gorbitz was built in 1984, but was only installed in 1993 and restored in 2013. In 1997 the solar-powered fair-weather fountain made of asphalt and metal was set up in Dresden-Plauen . Other Dreßels fountains are located on the grounds of the Dresden University Hospital , in the Bad Gottleuba health park and in Cottbus . The water feature there, known as the water gate , is six meters high and consists of stainless steel tubes that form an archway. The fountain is based on the size of the previous fountain and has the granite border of the removed crab fountain. The fountain was "both euphorically welcomed and devastatingly rejected" in the city. The installation Viva Fluvia! , which Dreßel had already shown at the Pieschen Harbor Festival in 1998 , has been a permanent installation on the grounds of the Dresden-Kaditz sewage treatment plant since 2005 at the point where the treated wastewater flows back into the Elbe. It's Viva Fluvia! around a 14-meter-high construction made of stainless steel, which sprays groundwater from nozzles onto the Elbe meadow not far from the Kaditz motorway bridge. The installation always sprays when an Elbe steamer passes the work of art. "Heidemarie Dreßel's creative will is characterized by a wealth of experimental imagination, which is based on natural forms, lives from structures, rhythm and movement and always integrates the viewer sustainably", wrote the Dresdner Latest News in 2003.
The memorial for the popular uprising on June 17, 1953 has been located on Postplatz in Dresden since 2008 . In the 2007 competition, Dreßel's design prevailed. It shows a 5.5-meter-long original section of a Russian tank chain (type T-34 ) as a sculpture in a walk-in bed of sand, which is constantly changed by the viewer's footprints. According to the artist, this “symbolizes how current military violence is to this day”. After its inauguration, the monument was controversial.
Works
In public space (selection)
- 1983: Ceramic play fountain, kindergarten, open space, Coswig near Dresden
- 1984: Nasses Haus fountain in Dresden-Gorbitz (erected in 1993)
- 1992: Fountain on the stairs, on the stairs , Dresden University Hospital
- 1995: Rondo Impulsiva fountain , Bad Gottleuba health park
- 1997: Nice weather fountain , Bernhardstrasse, Dresden
- 2003: Water gate , city promenade , Cottbus
- 2005: Viva Fluvia! , Stadtentwässerung Dresden, Elbe bank in Dresden-Kaditz
- 2008: Memorial to the popular uprising on June 17, 1953, Postplatz, Dresden
Temporary installations (selection)
- 1995: Nocturne , water-sound installation with Erwin Stache
- 1997: Water features on the Prießnitz , as part of the Mnemosyne '97 art campaign
- 1998: Crossing , rope network installation as part of the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music , Zwingerteich Dresden
- 2001: Night piece , Palais pond, Great Garden , Dresden
- 2004: damming zone , unfired clay, sculptor symposium in Hütscheroda
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1979–1989: District art exhibitions in Dresden
- 1985: Textil 85, Weimar
- 1987–1988: Xth art exhibition of the GDR
- 1990–1997: Exhibitions of the Dresden Secession 89
- 1992: Sculptures in the park, Winnenden Castle Park
- 1993: Melusine , Zwingerteich, Dresden
- 1995: Wrocław Triennial
- until 1997: Mnemosyne , water art actions of the Dresden Secession 89
- 1998: on the Elbe and Rhine , project of the Elisabeth-Montag-Stiftung
- 1999: Kunstgarten-Lustgarten, City Park Hannover
- 2000: Interim workshop in Bremen
- 2001: BlickRaum-FixBad , Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden
- 2003: Hiverale I, Palais in the Great Garden, Dresden (installation all-world menu )
- 2005: Don Quijote , Neue Sächsische Galerie , Chemnitz
- 2009: Federal Garden Show , Wietow branch, solar center
- 2010: Pictures of the Passion , Meißen Cathedral (with Gerda Lepke )
- 2013: Above Things - Retrospective; Galerie Drei, Dresden
- 2013: Form and Space , Chamber of Architects Saxony, Dresden
literature
- VF: Dreßel, Heidemarie . In: General Artist Lexicon (Volume 29: Donny – Du). KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, p. 391.
Web links
- Website from Heidemarie Dreßel
- Heidemarie Dreßel on the website of the Dresden Artists Association
- Short CV at bildhauersymposium.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Pinkert: Ceramics layered as a Tower of Babel . Sächsische Zeitung , August 7, 2003, p. 21.
- ↑ a b Karin Weber: Mysterious energy in water ballet . In: Dresdner Latest News , July 19, 2003, p. 10.
- ↑ a b Sewage treatment plant is to become an art park . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 27, 2011, p. 17.
- ↑ a b Monument erected for June 17th . In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 14, 2008, p. 24.
- ^ Armored chain as a memorial for June 17, 1953 . In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 16, 2008, p. 14.
- ↑ Christiane Raatz: Is that art or can it go away? . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 7, 2012, p. 14.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dreßel, Heidemarie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |